Master at Arms: Crimson Pugilist

Blackdirge Publishing gets up close and personal with a new prestige class based around the spiked gauntlet. The crimson pugilist is a ferocious close combat specialist, combining a barbarian's fury and a fighter's skill at arms to create a bloody and intimidating warrior. With his spiked gauntlets he can rend his opponents' flesh or simply hammer them into the dirt with an array of bone-crunching strikes. Vicious in the extreme, the crimson pugilist is an excellent choice for DMs and players looking to construct a brutal, no-holds-barred, barbarian/fighter hybrid.

Master at Arms - Crimson Pugilist contains 6 pages of new D20 material, which includes the following:

Master of Arms: Crimson Pugilist is part of the Master of Arms series that brings historical fighting styles to D20 fantasy by Blackdirge Publishing/Skeleton Key Games written by Aeryn ?Blackdirge? Rudel. It is an eight-page product (six after cover [...]

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